Photos by Orest Dorosh – Ghost is easily recognizable owing greatly to its eccentric on-stage presence. Eight of the group’s nine members, its ‘Nameless Ghouls,’ wear virtually identical, face concealing costumes. The most distinguishable member is its vocalist, called ‘Papa Emeritus’, who wears a prosthetic mask of skull face paint and appears as what can be described as a “demonic anti-Pope.” Each album cycle has brought about a change in the band’s appearance. Though the vocalist is always portrayed as roughly the same archetypal character, there are slight appearance changes, and even altered personality traits from former versions.
All of the band members’ true identities were kept anonymous until 2017, when five former members
revealed themselves, four of whom filed a lawsuit against the lead singer Tobias Forge, marking the confirmation of his true identity.
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